Dancing in the Plague Lyrics

About Dancing in the Plague

A tribute to the human spirit: people who quite simply danced in the face of death. During the medieval Black Death epidemics, which claimed one-third of the European population, some people responded by having huge bonfires at night, and dancing themselves into a frenzy.

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Dancing in the Plague Lyrics

(Whitaker/Kelley 2016)

Verse 1

We don’t know when the disease will strike us,

truly we might not be here, be alive,

next week, tomorrow the bulbs might smite us,

we never know when . . . . . . Black Death arrives.

Chorus

Life, always capricious, full of love and hate,

now becomes a fatal whirlwind of fate.

Verse 2

The dances always get out of control,

we think if we dance with full abandon,

we can dance far away from the black hole.

But life and death . . . . . . always go in tandem.

Chorus

Life, always capricious, full of love and hate,

now becomes a fatal whirlwind of fate.

PlayDancing in the Plague

So dance:

Instrumental

So dance

Dance, my humans, dance

Full abandon

Full abandon

Bridge – not done like the nursery rhyme – use same voice as god or death during instrumental